My new HD 5870..
DogSoldier
The heart of radical Amish country..
I got tired of the random reboots when gaming... I can't say for sure it was the video card, but it sure feels nice to upgrade! Not that this new card has been easy to deal with, It took about 3 hours of work yesterday before my computer could properly detect it. A lot of cable disconnecting/connecting and card re-seating, and then driver installation/uninstallation. The CD that came with it didn't work, or.. It did, in the beginning but both monitors were stuck at 60 mhz. My eyes would start bleeding inside 30 minutes if I had to work with a 60 mhz refresh rate.. Anyways.. Say hello to my little friend!
It's huge. I thought my 8800GTS was a monster but this thing is a full 2 inches longer. I thought it wouldn't fit in the case without removing a drive cage, but it fits.. Barely, with about a 1/4 inch to spare.
Now to give you some scale here it is with the card it replaces, a 8800GTS 320 SC, and an even older card, an Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
Here is another shot of these cards. A little history here, that 9800 Pro was the reason I joined Icrontic (Then ShortMedia) way back when. I flashed it from non-pro to Pro using SimGuy's legendary 9800 Pro flashing thread back in 2003.
I haven't settled on the new card yet. My system can't detect it using Powerolors ATI drivers so it's using the latest ATI driver. Chances are, since this card is a PCI-E 2.0 card,and my motherboard is PCI-E 1.2 AND XP (5800's are a little weird on XP) that may account for the cards bad behaviour. But if not, I might just RMA this one back for a replacement.
It's huge. I thought my 8800GTS was a monster but this thing is a full 2 inches longer. I thought it wouldn't fit in the case without removing a drive cage, but it fits.. Barely, with about a 1/4 inch to spare.
Now to give you some scale here it is with the card it replaces, a 8800GTS 320 SC, and an even older card, an Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
Here is another shot of these cards. A little history here, that 9800 Pro was the reason I joined Icrontic (Then ShortMedia) way back when. I flashed it from non-pro to Pro using SimGuy's legendary 9800 Pro flashing thread back in 2003.
I haven't settled on the new card yet. My system can't detect it using Powerolors ATI drivers so it's using the latest ATI driver. Chances are, since this card is a PCI-E 2.0 card,and my motherboard is PCI-E 1.2 AND XP (5800's are a little weird on XP) that may account for the cards bad behaviour. But if not, I might just RMA this one back for a replacement.
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If you find a solution to getting monitors to go above 60Hz without having to use my hot swapping technique described here: http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87096
please let me know, very annoying little bug.
Oh, and maybe try the non-64 bit. http://www.viewsonic.com/support/downloads/drivers/?prod_name=G90f
BTW, I get over 19000 in 3DMark06, an improvement of about 8000 over my 8800GTS.